Peter Jackson recaps the weekend’s Six Nations action. 

Suzanne Harrington joins the 50 club with Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Pamela Anderson. And no, she has no plans to take up knitting

Each week Denise O’Donoghue profiles one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City Marathon this June.

Despite its reluctance to fly, the roadrunner is not in danger and Richard Collins tells us how the grounded bird keeps thriving.

One World Trade Center in New York City — rebuilt after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks — is to go green on St Patrick’s Day for the first time.

Donald Trump has not directed any tweets toward Bono and the ‘interview’ … well, not yet.

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Golden retriever Zane is one of a kind: he works as a trained guide dog but he’s also able to alert his diabetes-suffering owner when her blood-sugar levels are low.

So Matt Damon gets up to some pretty interesting stuff, from gatecrashing the Hollywood party with his Oscar winning script for Good Will Hunting right the way to delivering a box office smash sci-fi comedy drama in The Martian last year.

Wales: The world’s largest bouncy castle, which is said to be taller than the Great Wall of China, has been unveiled at a music festival.

It is a lot to ask of someone who cannot legally buy a drink in his adopted home of Orlando until August, but Li Hao-tong could finally be the male Chinese star the world of golf has been waiting for.

Our schools need to teach Arabic. The act of trying to speak another’s language is a respect, writes Victoria White

More than one in two people have a ‘bucket list’ — places they want to see and things they want to do before they die, a survey reveals.

Chinese New Year is of particular significance to the thousands of adopted Chinese children living in Ireland and their parents writes 

CIA Director John Brennan must surely be in line for the euphemism award of the decade.

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Liverpool: A stinging finish from hoofer Jagielka

You might have seen this story online. But all is not as it seems.

While a possible twining between Waterford and Haikou city, China, might yield cultural and business rewards, it is a concern that it might take place at the expense of the non-human members of our society.

AS we all know, St Patrick’s Day was last week and we were all able to celebrate our Irishness once again. It’s a festival celebrated globally and we, the Irish, should be honoured to have a festival celebrated so universally.

The world’s cities turned green for the day as tens of thousands of Irish expats, new and old, gathered to celebrate St Patrick’s Day.

Four second-level students will be walking the Great Wall and speaking the native tongue in China over the next fortnight.

…literally. (And yes that is John Palmer from Home and Away in the photo)

They came last in 2007, but a new album marks 24 wonderful years on the road, says Siobhán Cronin

IT SEEMS that Hugo Chávez is on his last legs. Venezuela’s president has been battling cancer since the summer of 2011.

Children eager to track Santa Claus on his annual Christmas Eve journey to homes across the world can download a new mobile app thanks to a military aerospace agency.

Members of Iron Maiden, Slipknot and a host of other stars turned out to celebrate the 50th birthday of Marshall Amps on Saturday.

WE hear a lot of talk about Ireland’s priceless environment and heritage.

No tickets for London’s big event? Get into the Olympic spirit on a tour with a sporting twist, says Sally Howard

Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark last night, part of a global effort to highlight climate change.

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EUROPE’S biggest ever lottery winners have been revealed as a middle-aged couple from Scotland.

Comic Ricky Gervais said he sent his much-mocked sidekick Karl Pilkington to see the seven wonders of the world as an “expensive practical joke”.

Ricky Gervais's hapless sidekick Karl Pilkington has landed his own travel series visiting the Seven Wonders of the World, it was announced today.

A RECENTLY married couple were killed in a lightning strike at the weekend while climbing on a rugged section of the Great Wall of China.

A recently married couple were killed in a lightning strike while climbing on a rugged section of the Great Wall of China.

ONE of Ireland’s leading archaeological locations, Lough Gur, in Co Limerick, could soon be designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Great Wall of China is even greater than once thought.

A QUARTER of humanity held its collective breath and hoped the Taoiseach would change his mind.

The Olympic flame made one of its final relays today, on the eve of the Games’ opening ceremony, as torchbearers carried it along the ancient Great Wall of China.